Guard-rail.



J. W. KELLEY.

GUARD RAIL.

APPLIQATION FILED IEB.12,1912.

1,041,094. Patented 0@n.'15,1912.

WITNESSES fzvrra vrox UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN w. KELLEY, or CHICAGO, ILLINoIs, AssIGN'on or ONE-HALF TO DAVID R. MILLER AND WILLIAM PANSCHER, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

GUARD-RAIL.

Specification of Letters Iacent.

Patented Oct. 15,1912.

Application filed February 12, 1912. Serial No.-'6 77,231.

T all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN KELLEY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, Illinois, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Guard-Rails,'of which the following is a specification.

' The primary objectof this invention is to I provide an improved form of guard-rails adapted to be used in connection with frogs for railway tracks, and to'provide a structure which is simple, inexpensive, which can readily be made out of materials which are nearly always on hand in every railway yard,"and which will, in addition, be superior to all known devices of this class for the reasons hereinafter more particularly set forth.

In the drawin s Figure 1 is a plan view of a portion of trac including a frog equipped with this invention; Fig. 2 is a sectional view on-the lines 2 2, F ig. 1; and Fig. 3 is a sectional view on the lines 33, Fig. 1.

The frog, in connection with which the invention is shown int-he drawings; is represented as being used adjacent to'a switch point, and the tracks are shown as being a main track and a side track; but it should be understood, however, that the invention can be used in connection with crossing tracks as well as .in connection with switch points. In the specific form shown in Fig. 1, the various rails are supported upon the ties 1, there being the customary straight main-track rail 2, the bent raili 3.,which is the left-hand rail of the main trackabove the switch point and the left-hand rail of the switch track below the switch point. The point rails 4 and 5 are controlled by the lever 6 andlink 7, and are connected, re-

spectively, to the left-hand rail 8 of the main track and the right-hand rail 9 of the switch track. The frog 10 provides a crossing for rails 8 and 9.

The guard-rails 11 are shaped as sh'own in the drawings and are formed with arms 12 which are adapted to be secured by bolts 13 to the rails 8 and 9 and to the froglO at the joints between the frog and said rails, and, also, at

the joints between the frog 10 and the rails 14 and 15, it being obvious from the drawings that railsl t and 15 are the continuations of rails 8 and 9. At the joints nearest the switch point the guard-rail 12 preferably comes into direct contact with the rail 8, as shown in Fig. 2, but at the joint farthest removed from the switch point the guardrail and the rail upon which the wheels of the cars run are spaced apart,by blocks 16 in order that room may be left for the flanges of the wheels. The guard-rails are bent so as to extend from the joints at the ends of the frog'to therails 2 and v3, and are bolted or otherwise secured to rail 2 at 17 and to rail 3 at 18. In this manner the guard-rail is not only spiked to the ties and bolted to the frog, as in former construction, but is directly connected both to that maintrack rail and to that sidc-track rail which do not intersect at the frog. The members 11 may be made of old rails which, together with the appliances for bending the rails,

, are always to be found around a railway yard.

It will be noted that in this construction the guard-rail holds t e frog in permanent position and prevent:\a relative sliding movement of the frog and of the maintrack rails, because the frog cannot slip endwisc along the track without pulling the rails 2 and 3. The frog being held in fixed relation to the rails 52 and 3, it is obvious that the frog cannot move in either direction and tighten the gage. The expansion and contraction of the metal, due to change in temperature, will neither tighten nor loosen the gage because no movement of the frog, either sidewise or endwise, is pos sible, and the guard-rail at all times holds the frog, the switch points, and the main rails in permanent position and true gage.

-The guard-rail 11 is secured to the maintrack rail 2 directly opposite the heart of the' "frog so that the flanges of the wheels upon track2 strike the inner surface of the web of the guard-rail at the same time that the other wheels of-the same pairs are riding upon the frog; and, similarly, the guard-rail which is secured to the side-track rail 3 is fastened at a point directly opposite the heart of the frog. The two guard-rails t end to brace together the ends of the frog nearest the frog point; One of the weakest points about the average frog and the point where it tends most frequently to'break from use, is at the crotch, but the guard-rails brace the frog so as to prevent spreading or splitting of the frog at or adjacent the crotch .19. The arm'12 of the guard-rail is practically parallel to the rail 9, and the arms 20 and '21 are practically parallel to the rails the combination of track-rails,

departing from the scope of the. invention or of the various claims.

1 clalm asmy'inventlonz v 1. In a device of the character described,

guard-rail, said guard-rail being secured to said frog 'atthe joint b'etweenthefrog and the switch-track rail andat the joint 'be [the joint between frog and tween the frog and themain-track rail, said guard-rail extending outwardly from said. 15-

fro-g and being secured to"the 1nain-track rail at a point opposite said frog.

2.- In a device of the'character'described,

the combi'nation of track-rails, a fro and a guard-rail secured thereto and dlrectly engaging the frog at the joint between the the I switch-track rail and secured to the frog but spaced apart therefrom at to the other main-track rail at a point opposite said frog.

3. In a device-ofthe' character described, the combination of track ra,ils, a frog, 8. guardrail secured thereto and havingwan arm extending parallel to one of theswitch+ track rails, an arm parallel to 3 one of the the main-track rails,

ing secured to said main-track rails, said :arms being secured, re I spect-ively; to the frog at the joints between said frog and the rails to which said arms are parallel,an arm parallelzto-the other main trackrail, and arms-extending obliquely to: the main-track rails and. connecting said first-mentioned and said second-mentioned arms to said third-mentioned arm.

4.111 a device of the ch'aracter described the combination of trackwails, afrog, a

pair'of guard-rails secured thereto, each befrog at the joint between the-frog and one of theswitch track rails and at'thejointbetweenthefrog and one of 'bothof said u guarda 'frog, [and a j the frog and one maintrack rail, said guard rail being also secure the combination. of

'fiXed my name in the presence of nesses.

secured. to the track rail at a point opposite said frog.

'5. In a device of the character described, the combination of track-rails,. a frog, and a guard rail, said guard-rail being secured to said frog at the joint between the frog and one of the rails connected to the switch point and extending from said point to one of the (rails.

-' '6. In .a device ,ofthe character described,

thefcombination oftrack-rails, a frog,,and a guard-rail, said guard-rail being connected at each of it's ends to the endsof the frog, and-being connected at a point adjacent the Iniddle jt to a track rail.

7. 1am device'of the character described,

the'c ombination of track-rails, a frog, and.

a guard-member, said guard-member being formed pf'a rail and being secured .to said frog at the joint between said'frog and the switch-track rail, and extending therefrom to oneof the main-track rails.

8.'=-'In ajdevice ofi'the character described.

which is secured as a fish plate at the joint between the frog and one of the switclr track rails and which 'isfsecured also to one of the main-track rails.

v 9. Ina deviceof the character described, the combination of a frog, a pair of ma.

track rails, a pair of switch-track rails and apair of guard-rails, each of said guardrails bein securedto said frog at the joint between t e frog and one of the rails connected thereto, and being secured also to the track rail opposite said frog.

- In testimony whereof I have hereunto aftwo wit- J OHN' W. KELLEY.

Witnesses:

\Vmmiuu PnNscHER, RALPH L. ASHCROFT.

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rails extending from said frog and being a frog, a switch-track rail. and a-main-track rail, and a member 

